I and The Village, by Marc Chagall

I and the Village

Artist	Marc Chagall
Year	1911
Type	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	192.1 cm × 151.4 cm (75 ⅝ in × 59 ⅝ in)
Location	Museum of Modern Art, New York City

I and the Village is a painting by the Jewish Belarusian-born French artist Marc Chagall. It is currently exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art. It was painted in  oil in the year 1911, after Chagall came to Paris The artwork features seems to examine the relationship with artist and his place of birth,  I and the Village evokes his memories of his native Hasidic community outside Vitebsk

The artwork features many soft, dreamlike images overlapping each other.  In the village, peasants and animals lived side by side, in a mutual dependence here signified by the line from peasant to cow, connecting their eyes. The peasant's flowering sprig, symbolically a tree of life, is the reward of their partnership. For Hasids, animals were also humanity's link to the universe, and the painting's large circular forms suggest the orbiting sun, moon (in eclipse at the lower left), and earth.

The geometries of I and the Village are inspired by the broken planes of Cubism, but Chagall's is a personalized version. As a boy he had loved geometry: "Lines, angles, triangles, squares," he would later recall, "carried me far away to enchanting horizons." Conversely, in Paris he used a disjunctive geometric structure to carry him back home. Where Cubism was mainly an art of urban avant-garde society, I and the Village is nostalgic and magical, a rural fairy tale: objects jumble together, scale shifts abruptly, and a woman and two houses, at the painting's top, stand upside-down. "For the Cubists," Chagall said, "a painting was a surface covered with forms in a certain order. For me a painting is a surface covered with representations of things . . . in which logic and illustration have no importance."


What i impressed most:
The memories of the birthday will always remark in our heart. Chagall was staying in his hometown for few years, but he always miss the home, and using the village, sheep, goat, animal features to represent his inner soul of deep missing of the country. every painting of him, looks so different and some of it give people  a lot of hopes. In this painting, i love the  "tree" at the bottom of the paint.
consciously he missed the father and mother, the country
unconsciously he is using life tree symbolized his growing and shinny life that never ends. there is alaways a hope, with hope, we are able to cope in life and growth better.

if u see it very careful, the necklace have the symbolic of christian, as well as the church and village. He is having a really strong belief and faith in what he believe and always bring the value in his life.
we shouldn't forget from where we come, and never forget to where we want to go. Life of tress serve a purpose and each of us have a purpose when we did born to this world. it's show to me though Chagall are not likely to be like his father, or any others else in his hometown, but he prove to the world how he perceive and make sense of what he see through his painting/ art work.

live life to fullest!